Police unplug promoter using K-pop group without valid visas
日本引進無工作簽證韓流藝人的負責人受懲

Several Indonesian men dance in front of the stage during a Dangdut concert in Depok, Indonesia last Monday.多名男子上週一在印尼戴伯克一場Dangdut曲風音樂會的舞台前跳舞。

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Cashing in on the huge popularity of the Korean Wave, especially among Japanese women, one promoter using young South Korean male “entertainers” who did not have the proper visas to work in Japan is going to have to face the music.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced on Feb. 15 that it had sent papers to prosecutors for a 48-year-old South Korean man who held 66 performances at a club in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward using a five-man K-pop group residing illegally.

“I thought that if I brought young people who had just debuted in South Korea to Japan and if they became as popular as [the K-pop groups] KARA or Tohoshinki, I would be able to reap huge profits and that the club would also become famous,” sources said the man told investigators.